Smart parking management system with decal electronics system

Abstract

Various examples are related to parking management, including identifying and reserving empty parking spaces. In one example, a smart parking space system includes a parking controller located at a parking space. The parking controller can identify a vehicle located at the parking space via an input sensor or a transceiver that initiates wireless communication with an electronic tag associated with the vehicle; and communicate a parking vacancy associated with the parking space to a remote computing device based at least in part on the identification of the vehicle. In another example, a computing device can receive parking vacancy data associated with a parking space from a parking controller; determine a parking vacancy associated with the parking space using the parking vacancy data; and encode for display on a client device a network page that includes an indication of the parking vacancy associated with the parking space.

Therefore, at least the following is claimed: 
     
         1 . A smart parking space system, comprising:
 a parking controller located at a parking space, the parking controller configured to:
 identify a vehicle located at the parking space via an input sensor or a transceiver that initiates wireless communication with an electronic tag associated with the vehicle; and 
 communicate a parking vacancy associated with the parking space to a remote computing device based at least in part on the identification of the vehicle. 
   
     
     
         2 . The smart parking space system of  claim 1 , wherein the parking controller and electronic tag are decal electronic systems comprising a plurality of flexible electronic devices. 
     
     
         3 . The smart parking space system of  claim 1 , further comprising an energy harvesting power source that supplies electrical energy to the smart parking space system. 
     
     
         4 . The smart parking space system of  claim 3 , wherein the energy harvesting power source comprises at least one of an ambient vibration sensing device, a wind sensing device, a thermal sensing device, or a light sensing device. 
     
     
         5 . The smart parking space system of  claim 1 , wherein a light source is located at the parking space and electrically coupled to the parking controller, the light source indicating an availability of the parking space. 
     
     
         6 . The smart parking space system of  claim 5 , wherein the parking controller configures the light source to indicate the availability of the parking space in response to a command from the remote computing device. 
     
     
         7 . The smart parking space system of  claim 6 , wherein the command is provided in response to a parking request from a client device. 
     
     
         8 . The smart parking space system of  claim 6 , wherein the indicated availability of the parking space comprises an indication that the parking space is vacant or reserved. 
     
     
         9 . The smart parking space system of  claim 1 , wherein the remote computing device is communicatively coupled to a plurality of parking controllers, each of the plurality of parking controllers located in a corresponding parking space. 
     
     
         10 . The smart parking space system of  claim 9 , wherein the plurality of parking controllers are communicatively coupled to the remote computing device via a wireless network. 
     
     
         11 . The smart parking space system of  claim 1 , further comprising the remote computing device. 
     
     
         12 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, wherein the program, when executed, causes the at least one computing device to:
 receive, over a network, parking vacancy data associated with a parking space from a parking controller, the parking controller being located at the parking space;   determine a parking vacancy associated with the parking space based at least in part on the parking vacancy data; and   encode for display on a client device a network page that includes an indication of the parking vacancy associated with the parking space.   
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 12 , wherein the parking vacancy data includes parking space occupancy data, parking space reservation data, or parking space transaction data. 
     
     
         14 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 12 , the program further causes the at least one computing device to update an electronic parking record based at least in part on the parking vacancy data and the parking vacancy. 
     
     
         15 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 14 , wherein the program further causes the at least one computing device to:
 receive a reservation request associated with the parking space from the client device; and   update the parking vacancy associated with the parking space in the electronic parking record to indicate a parking reservation.   
     
     
         16 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 14 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the at least one computing device to, in response to a parking request from the client device, determine a vacant parking space based at least in on the electronic parking record. 
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 12 , wherein the program further cause the at least one computing device to transmit the parking vacancy to the parking controller, wherein the parking controller facilitates changing a light source to a reservation state. 
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the light source is located at the parking space. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 12 , wherein the program, when executed, causes the at least one computing device to determine a location associated with the client device based at least in part on location system data received from the client device. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 19 , wherein determining a vacant parking space is further based at least in part on the location associated with the client device.